Letter
Christian Emanuel Frolich to Benjamin Franklin, April 7, 1781
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1 . A merchant who lived from 1737 to 1792: Hans-Albrecht Koch et al. , eds., Deutscher Biographischer Index (4 vols., Munich, London, New York, 1986), I , 606. We wish to thank Liselotte Davis of Yale University for deciphering the eighteenth-century German hand to provide us with this ru00e9sumu00e9.nn2 . A lodge at Gu00f6rlitz, les Trois Flammes, did establish an affiliation of correspondence in 1785 with les Amis Ru00e9unis of the Grand Orient at Paris: Alain Le Bihan, Loges et chapu00eetres de la Grande Loge et du Grand Orient de France u2026 (Commission du2019histoire u00e9conomique et sociale de la ru00e9volution franu00e7aise, Mu00e9moires et documents , XX , Paris, 1967), pp. 446u20137. For the rite of Strict Observance, then prevalent in German freemasonry, see Daniel Ligou, Dictionnaire de la franc-mau00e7onnerie (Paris, 1987), pp. 601u20135.nn3 . Samuel Traugott Frosch (b. 1737), lottery employee and geographer: Koch, Deutscher Biographischer Index , I , 609. The Loterie royale de France , established in 1776 to consolidate the lotteries of the Ecole royale militaire, several religious communities, and the Hu00f4tel de Ville, was governed by a conseiller du2019Etat: Marcel Marion, Dictionnaire des institutions de la France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siu00e8cles (Paris, 1923; reprinted, New York, 1968), p. 343. Frosch, however, is not among the administrators listed in the Almanach royal for the years 1777 to 1782.
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